Break Out: (4)

Grammar Tense Structure:

  • Present Tense: break / breaks out
  • Past Tense: broke out
  • Past Participle: broken out
  • Present Participle: breaking out

1: When you escape from a place where you are a prisoner, you break out or break out of that place.

non-separable phrasal verb

  • The prisoner broke out of prison last month.
  • The police have been looking for him ever since he broke out.

2: An escape from prison is a breakout.

noun

  • That was the first time there had been a breakout from the maximum security prison since it opened 20 years ago.

3: When fighting begins suddenly, it breaks out..

non-separable phrasal verb

  • Fighting broke out between rival fans in the stadium.
  • When war breaks out, the losers are always the civilians.

4: When a rash appears on your body, we say it breaks out

non-separable phrasal verb

  • I got stung from a nettle and a rash broke out on my arm.

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